man Encode::TW () - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings
NAME
Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings
SYNOPSIS
use Encode qw/encode decode/;
$big5 = encode("big5", $utf8); # loads Encode::TW implicitly
$utf8 = decode("big5", $big5); # ditto
DESCRIPTION
This module implements tradition Chinese charset encodings as used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Encodings supported are as follows.
Canonical Alias Description
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big5-eten /\bbig-?5$/i Big5 encoding (with ETen extensions)
/\bbig5-?et(en)?$/i
/\btca-?big5$/i
big5-hkscs /\bbig5-?hk(scs)?$/i
/\bhk(scs)?-?big5$/i
Big5 + Cantonese characters in Hong Kong
MacChineseTrad Big5 + Apple Vendor Mappings
cp950 Code Page 950
= Big5 + Microsoft vendor mappings
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To find out how to use this module in detail, see Encode.
NOTES
Due to size concerns, CWEUC-TW (Extended Unix Character), CWCCCII (Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange), CWBIG5PLUS (CMEX's Big5+) and CWBIG5EXT (CMEX's Big5e) are distributed separately on CPAN, under the name Encode::HanExtra. That module also contains extra China-based encodings.
BUGS
Since the original CWbig5 encoding (1984) is not supported anywhere (glibc and DOS-based systems uses CWbig5 to mean CWbig5-eten; Microsoft uses CWbig5 to mean CWcp950), a conscious decision was made to alias CWbig5 to CWbig5-eten, which is the de facto superset of the original big5.
The CWCNS11643 encoding files are not complete. For common CWCNS11643 manipulation, please use CWEUC-TW in Encode::HanExtra, which contains planes 1-7.
The ASCII region (0x00-0x7f) is preserved for all encodings, even though this conflicts with mappings by the Unicode Consortium. See
<http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-symbols.html.en>
to find out why it is implemented that way.
SEE ALSO
Encode